 | Gerald Ephraim Hart - 1890 - 318 páginas
...autobiography, all dated from 1735 to 1741. (35) 2857 FRONTENAC, Louis de Buade, Count de, Governor of Canada. The most remarkable man who ever represented the Crown of France in America, ds i p. 4° " Montreal, 16 Sept., 1693," with fine seal. Relating to the English and the Iroquois.... | |
 | 1899 - 478 páginas
...and their institutions ; and Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV (1877), Frontenac being " the most remarkable man who ever represented the Crown of France in the New World." He was appointed Governor-general of Canada in 1672, and filled out most of the century with his vigorous... | |
 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1907 - 786 páginas
...in 1698 in his seventy-eighth year, after being governor for eighteen years, [the author] declares 'The most remarkable man who ever represented the Crown of France in the New World,' and adds that it was he alone who made possible 'the grand scheme of military occupation by which France... | |
 | 1915 - 526 páginas
...regarded as one of the greatest men who ever came to this country. Count Frontenac, whom Parkman says was the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World, was a man of vigorous mind, cultivated, penetrating. He had traveled extensively, was a soldier of... | |
 | Maine Federation of Women's Clubs - 1916 - 450 páginas
...and five Algonquins. In part, the French were young sons of landed proprietors who held seigniories 'Count Frontenac, the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World. — Parkman's Frontenac and New France under Loins XIV. along the St. Lawrence and her tributary streams.... | |
 | Michael Kraus, Davis D. Joyce - 1990 - 466 páginas
...the conquest of Canada by British arms." The next volume, Count Frontenac, celebrated the deeds of "the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World." The first important struggle between the rival powers came during his rule. He organized a "grand scheme... | |
 | 1904 - 1086 páginas
...de Palluau et de Frontenac, became Governor - General of Canada. Parfcman said that Frontenac was " the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the i New World." It could easily be added that he was the most remarkable European in America during the... | |
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the most remarkable man who ever represented the crown of France in the New World. From strangely unpromising beginnings, he grew with every emergency, and rose equal to every crisis. 